Earlier this week we invited a group of London's Instagrammers to join us for a glimpse behind the scenes at Covent Garden.

#EmptyROH documents the Royal Opera House 'waking up' for a day of rehearsals, making, and performance. It is the first such event organized by Instagram in the UK, following a handful of events in the US including EmptyMet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

The Instagrammers attended Royal Ballet Class as well as getting glimpses into the Royal Opera House's Costume and Prop departments.

Here are a selection of our favourite pictures from the day, with more being uploaded over the coming days on the #EmptyROH tag:

If you'd like more access to life behind the scenes at the Royal Opera House, join us online for World Ballet Day on 1 October - a full day of live streaming from five top ballet companies including The Royal Ballet.

Anna Nicole runs until 24 September 2014. Tickets are still available.The first performance is a student-only production with tickets priced £1–£25. Find out more about ROH Students. ROH Students is generously made possible by the Bunting Family and Simon Robey.

At the Royal Opera House, we’re big fans of Instagram and have been enjoying the thousands of photos you’ve taken of the building. We’ve also been posting our own pictures @RoyalOperaHouse, including a selection of behind the scenes images.

In celebration of your great photos, we’ve selected a few of our favourites. If you’re an Instagram user, why not share your own using the location tag function or by using the #royaloperahouse hashtag?

Alongside the truly amazing contributions on stage from the artists of The Royal Opera and Royal Ballet we’ve seen great involvement on the part of our audience via our website's News and features section as well as social media platforms. The 2012/13 Season saw unprecedented levels of engagement, not least through our Your Reaction blog posts for all Main Stage productions, debates and live-tweets - including Royal Opera LIVE and BP Big Screens. Thousands of you from across the world have interacted, contributed and critiqued. We’re listening to your views and doing our best to open up the ROH and the art forms that we work with every day.

Do please continue your involvement and get involved, not just on behalf of the Royal Opera House, but on behalf of the wider arts sector as there's a continuing case to be made for the artforms we present.

At the Royal Opera House, we're big fans of Instagram and have been enjoying the thousands of photos you've taken of the building. We've also been posting our own pictures @RoyalOperaHouse, including a selection of behind the scenes images.

In celebration of your great photos, we've selected a few of our favourites. If you're an Instagram user, why not share your own using the #royaloperahouse hashtag?

What we’ll be asking her is up to you, so send us your questions via the comments area below or on Twitter using the hashtag #AskJoyce. You might want to ask her about her favourite role, the current production of La donna del lago or what it's like performing in front of tens of thousands when an opera is relayed live to cinemas around the world.

Joyce is singing the role of Elena in John Fulljames's Royal Opera production of La donna del lago. She's previously sung at Covent Garden in The Cunning Little Vixen,Don Giovanni, Cendrillon,Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville), which she memorably performed in a wheelchair after breaking her leg.